Paul Hettwer is a retired sanitation worker who for decades collected items with grand plans to repair them and give them away, but the items ended up stacked so high in his Milwaukee home that they blocked doors and windows.

MILWAUKEE, Wisc. —

Paul Hettwer is a retired sanitation worker who for decades collected items with grand plans to repair them and give them away, but the items ended up stacked so high in his Milwaukee home that they blocked doors and windows.